What do you mean it wasn't anything? Didn't the earth move or the planets align or something? -Rose to Lissa on sleeping with Aaron

I decided the Alchemists needed an entire department devoted to handling Adrian Ivashkov.

the choices we made today were templates for the future.

He watched as I slipped one of the shoes on. "You have a guardian angel." "I don't believe in angels," I told him. "I believe in what I can do for myself." Well then, you have an amazing body." I glanced up at him with a questioning look. "For healing, I mean. I heard about the accident.

How was it that Adrian Ivashkov, who never seemed to take anything seriously was the only one among these "responsible" people who paid attention to such small details? How was he the only one to really understand the magnitude of what I was feeling?

And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster.

Would he have said he loved me? I would ask myself that for the rest of my life.